Roku finally gets a YouTube channel, implements DIAL

Roku closed a big gap in its channel line-up Tuesday by finally adding a YouTube channel. The channel will initially just be available on the Roku 3, but a YouTube spokesperson told me that the company hopes to bring it to other Roku devices in 2014.

This is the first time Roku has had an official YouTube channel. The device launched just with Netflix support in 2008, and an independent developer added an unofficial YouTube channel at some point, but Google forced Roku to shut down that channel in 2011. However, earlier this summer, a survey suggested that Roku was getting ready to finally add YouTube.